The Young Couple

They met in high school like every love song cliché Coquette locker conversations, dates made after class Living in a city they adored more and more each day But they moved away for college, not noting time pass When they graduated, they dreamt of returning home to the streets and shops and skies that they once knew with suitcases and salaries and a car trimmed with chrome Yet rental application after rental application was rejected and the sweethearts bid adieu to Washington, dejected Sitting up straight and smiling as they drove to Baltimore